Lucha and Jamson exchange information in the aftermath of their accident.
Lucha remembers the day she left her childhood behind.
Jameson contemplates the multifaceted nature of his personality.
Lucha and Jameson connect at Lucha's performance of Orpheus and Eurydice.
Romance blooms on Lucha and Jameson's first date.
Lucha and Jameson share a passionate physical experience.
The metaphysical peak in Lucha and Jameson's love.
On their wedding day, Lucha gives Jameson a fateful gift.
Lucha receives a mysterious phone call from a voice she seems to recognize.
Before leaving Los Angeles, Orlando pays his last respects to his wife.
Reflect on the impact of a location's geography on a person's psyche.
In a state of darkness, Lucha is haunted by Jameson's red notebook.
Still submerged in darkness, Lucha dreams of Jameson's infidelity.
Lucha descends to the underworld in search of Jameson.
After years apart, Lucha and Orlando reunite in Los Angeles.
Lucha makes peace with Jameson's disappearance.
“We jokingly called this the sexophone chapter, since it depicted the moment of physical union between Jameson and Lucha, and was scored by Andrew McIntosh for a saxophone quartet.
“The scene had three parts: Lucha and Jameson’s foreplay, with one saxophonist in the car, with clothes starting to come off; the saxophonist leads the audience to Peter Shire’s sculpture at Angel’s Point, with its expansive views of Los Angeles, and where three other saxophonists waited to play climactic harmonies; and finally a different saxophonist lead the audience back into the car, where the post-coital Jameson and Lucha sang a beautiful coda: ‘The end, never the end, never the end, never the…’
The sculpture at Angel’s Point is by Echo Park artist Peter Shire. The sculpture memorializes Glass’ and Simons’ activism to keep the neighborhood from being overdeveloped. The underlying message draws awareness to the negative effects of industrialism and represents Shire’s own perception of Los Angeles, including its physical and social constructions.
Andrew decided to score this duet for two women, a really beautiful nod to operatic tradition. As luck would have it, Chapter 11 – when the couple were most deeply in love –also has Jameson played by a woman. Now I regret that we didn’t have at least one male Lucha!
“The road up to Angel’s Point in Elysian Park was full of potholes when I first chose it as a location for the Green Route. I was having a hard time imagining a saxophonist playing on such an unstable stretch of road without potentially getting injured! So in conversations with the office of Councilmember Gil Cedillo, I asked the planner if they could pave the roads sometime before October. To my amazement, they actually did it!
“I still consider this site one of the best-kept secrets in Los Angeles.”